The White House is making arcade games racist

(theverge.com)

22 points | by OxO4 8 hours ago ago

14 comments

  • jdlshore 7 hours ago ago

    To be clear, the administration is making racist arcade games (e.g., a Tetris knock-off about the Mexican border that portrays Mexicans as literal aliens and zombies), not causing other people to make their arcade games racist.

  • Cider9986 8 hours ago ago
    • snickerbockers 6 hours ago ago

      I'm disappointed they don't have a missile command clone where you have to shoot down the shaheds with your ever-dwindling stockpile of patriots before you lose every base in the Persian gulf.

  • esalman 6 hours ago ago

    These games are toxic and dark, and would be moderated on a marketplace like Steam. And Steam has fair share of dark games.

    • snickerbockers 6 hours ago ago

      i doubt it, there are quite a few low-quality asset-flip games build around politically-incorrect memes on steam.

      • esalman 4 hours ago ago

        The most controversial one I can think of is a school shooting simulator. But I doubt it's live now.

        Even if there are dark games, they are meant to be parody/satire. Certainly not done in the same spirit what the white house is doing here.

  • nielsbot 7 hours ago ago

    Curious who will be playing and enjoying these

    • krapp 7 hours ago ago

      I think that about a lot of vibe-coded games, most of the ones I see posted here are barely playable and rudimentary at best. And as propaganda games go, these aren't even very clever.

  • snickerbockers 6 hours ago ago

    Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!?

    EDIT: good lord this is cringe, it doesn't even clear lines when you complete them. It's impossible to not get a game-over because the screen fills up regardless of whether or not you play well.

    Not that I was ever expecting quality from Donald Trump's vibecode boomer-meme slop but I thought they could at least bother to correctly implement the simplest and most recognizable video game of all time, especially since it's going on whitehouse.gov.

    • tocs3 6 hours ago ago

      My reply here is just bout the one quote. I more or less agree with the sentiment of your post. But..

      Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!?

      I think the point of the game tetris is to build a wall or at least could be thought of that way. Each line that you completed and moves off the bottom of the screen is a completed section of wall and the goal is to make a hole free wall for as long as you can.

  • bitbasher 7 hours ago ago

    Why is building a wall racist?

    • happymellon 2 hours ago ago

      Because the president of the US is trying to deflect attention from wanting to sleep with his daughter, having a sex trafficking friend and probably sleeping with children, and being bad at starting wars by blaming foreigners for Americas problems?

      But you know this already.

    • 7 hours ago ago
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    • oilkillsbirds 7 hours ago ago

      It’s not. It’s a border and if you’re not a child you understand why borders are necessary and why literally every country has one. But this board is full of leftists so good luck.